Quotes About Acceptance

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

Someday you will understand that life can't flow as you always planned.

When Grandma read me: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall . . . I never knew that Humpty's fall was something that someday comes to us all.

To tolerate is to insult.

If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.

I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations. And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, And if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

Before me now there is only one real fact -- Death. The truth I have been seeking -- this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So -- we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.

There is no greater sign of enlightenment on a global level than (1) the desire for tolerance,(2) the desire for peace, and (3) the elimination of everything that gets in the way of number 1 and number 2. Did

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

Nipples are a fact of life. We all have them.

Today it's just a wound. It takes a long time before you realize it's become a scar.

I'm a lesbian.

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may have been the nicest thing anyone had said to Eve since she'd become a homicide detective. She wasn't alone. She wasn't hated by everybody. There were people she could trust, who cared about her even if they didn't actually know her. Eve

We pray, those of us who believe; those of us who don't believe ask, Let me go quickly and peacefully into the night.

I've learned that even people with mental illness have stigmas about mental illness.

Some folks require the park's wildness and yet deny its right to exercise its wildness upon them.

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

We accept human nature as it is, then we base our system on it. Your system must accept that human nature is like that. You get the best out of people for society by incentives and disincentives. If you remove too much of their rewards from the top tier, they will migrate.

China wants to be China and accepted as such—not as an honorary member of the West.

You can pretend that your life is going on when really, all along, you're trapped in a moment you'll never be able to change.

Life had gone on. It always did. that's what you learned as you got older. Time. It kept moving. You wished you could change. They were gone. They left you in a snap.

Is it too late?" I asked Margot Cherry that afternoon. It's been more than thirty years and still I can remember how my voice shook. "How do we know when we've loved someone all that we can?

In America, everything seemed fixable, and in Japan, difficult problems were to be endured. Shoganai, shoganai. How many times had he heard those words? It cannot be helped. His mother had apparently hated that expression, and suddenly he understood her rage against this cultural resignation that violated her beliefs and wishes. Book 3, page 456